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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, msnyder@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: RFA: don't try to compare IEEE NaN's
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106060615.JAA14470@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010606034145.7D5065E9CB@zwingli.cygnus.com>

> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> Date: Tue,  5 Jun 2001 22:41:45 -0500 (EST)
> 
> !   testval.float_testval = 2.7182818284590452354;/* long_long_checkpoint */
> !   float_resultval     = float_func ();		
> !   testval.double_testval = 3.14159265358979323846; /* float_checkpoint */
> !   double_resultval    = double_func ();		

I think it is better to initialize the integral members of the union
with an explicit bit pattern, just not a pattern which gets
interpreted as a NaN of an Inf.  With initialization such as above,
you risk losing due to subtleties of compile-time conversion of a
literal constant to a floating-point value.  This is a GDB test suite,
so we are not interested in testing the compiler.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-05 20:40 Jim Blandy
2001-06-05 23:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2001-06-06  6:54   ` Fernando Nasser
2001-06-06  7:27   ` Jim Blandy
2001-06-06  8:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-06  9:15       ` Fernando Nasser
2001-06-06 11:38         ` Jim Blandy
2001-06-06 11:52           ` Fernando Nasser
2001-06-06 13:59             ` Michael Snyder
2001-06-06 23:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-06 23:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-06 10:37       ` Jim Blandy
2001-06-06 10:55         ` Michael Snyder
2001-06-06 11:04           ` Fernando Nasser
2001-06-06 11:15             ` Michael Snyder
2001-06-06 15:08           ` Jim Blandy
2001-06-06 23:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-06 23:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-07 10:38           ` Michael Snyder
2001-06-07 11:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-06 13:17   ` Michael Meissner
2001-06-06 13:45     ` Fernando Nasser
2001-06-06 23:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-06-06  6:45 ` Fernando Nasser

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